Moment Priors for Bayesian Model Choice with Applications to Directed Acyclic Graphs

Bayesian Statistics 9

Volumn 9780199694587, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Consonni, Guido ^a   Rocca, Luca La ^b   Smith, Jim Q ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fractional Bayes factor; Gaussian graphical model; Non local prior; Objective Bayes

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DIRECTED GRAPHS;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH MODEL; FRACTIONAL BAYES FACTORS; GAUSSIAN GRAPHICAL MODELS; NON-LOCAL PRIORS; OBJECTIVE BAYES; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84933474988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199694587.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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